Work Photos

evo · Aug 30, 2018

Rope angles.. to lazy to redirect for one cut

rico · Sep 1, 2018

Banged out a little Redwood deck today for an old couple who has lived in my hood for over 50 years. I took out a couple Reds last fall and milled them into some pretty nice lumber. Im trying to get some of their building project done in my spare time before winter hits.

They live in one of the older homesteads in my hood that was built by a well known local Swede and his sons in 1898-1900? Probably my favorite parcel in the area. Amazing place.

pigwot · Sep 1, 2018

Nicely done !

rico · Sep 1, 2018

Thanks pigwot. I'm a mediocre carpenter at best, but I do enjoy building things with trees that I wreaked, skidded, and milled.

pigwot · Sep 1, 2018

You appear to underestimate your abilities! I'm sure they'll enjoy that deck a long time.

rico · Sep 1, 2018

The lumber is full dimension and 90-95% heart. After a coat of Penofin Red Label (the best) it should last the rest of their lives.

southsoundtree · Sep 9, 2018

What have you all been doing?

I've been on an 11 tree removal project for an HOA in their greenbelt. Dead and dying. 10 doug-fir, one alder. A lot of drought stress, I think.

I left chips onsite for mulch, hauled a bunch of logs, hooked up 4 friends with wood (one in partial trade for signs on trucks, one for partial trade for a greenhouse, one in part as trade for carpentry, and one friend who is always helping me, and me him).

evo · Sep 9, 2018

We have has a lot of drought stress too, also rapid advance of Laminated RR. Many hemlock seem to be getting the brunt. Wondering about effects of wildfire smoke too

evo · Sep 12, 2018

Moody clouds, racing approaching lightning. Short tree over the edge, about 300’ to the sand below

southsoundtree · Sep 12, 2018

How do you put up with that ugliness, day in, day out?

climbingmonkey24 · Sep 12, 2018

One of my customers is a photographer and took some photos while I was taking out some trees on her property.

southsoundtree · Sep 13, 2018

Good pics.

FWIW, you might want to have a weak link in your lanyard system. Can't tell is you're using high-strength connections all the way to a solid point on your harness.

Also, stitching some elastic tape is a way to shorten up that seemingly over-long lanyard, on the cheap. Elastic break-aways are good stuff.

A key-biner is a simply break-away attachment, somewhere in there.

As I look more, you have your long lanyard on backward (no need for the short lanyard and extra carabiner, IMO). The big ring will pass through the girth hitch (directly to the saw), allowing you to hang you saw short by the big ring (I tape open a Kong paddle biner through a slot on my saddle to hang my saw, unless I want a closed clip-in). A lot of people are into Shembiners, Transporters and the like. FWIW.

evo · Sep 13, 2018

southsoundtree said:
How do you put up with that ugliness, day in, day out?

What ya mean? I’ve been waiting for 49 weeks for these days!

climbingmonkey24 · Sep 13, 2018

southsoundtree said:
Good pics.

FWIW, you might want to have a weak link in your lanyard system. Can't tell is you're using high-strength connections all the way to a solid point on your harness.

Also, stitching some elastic tape is a way to shorten up that seemingly over-long lanyard, on the cheap. Elastic break-aways are good stuff.

A key-biner is a simply break-away attachment, somewhere in there.

As I look more, you have your long lanyard on backward (no need for the short lanyard and extra carabiner, IMO). The big ring will pass through the girth hitch (directly to the saw), allowing you to hang you saw short by the big ring (I tape open a Kong paddle biner through a slot on my saddle to hang my saw, unless I want a closed clip-in). A lot of people are into Shembiners, Transporters and the like. FWIW.

If you're talking about the saw lanyards, the reason for that is because my little Echo never came with the little ring that Stihl's come with to attach the chainsaw lanyard too. I had a swivel hook in there but lost it, so that's why I've put a loop runner through as the attaching point for my chainsaw lanyard. The little connecting point that did come with the Echo isn't big enough for the chainsaw lanyard to pass through where I could just girth hitch it. I've tried.

As for my climbing system, the blue rope was my lanyard and the green rope was my climbing line I had positioned up in the other trunk. I was climbing Ddrt. The blue lanyard actually isn't very long at all.

On my lanyard I'm using a hitch climber with friction hitch connected to saddle by a locking carabiner. On the other end I have a rope snap. You think I should change? I recently switched to the rope snap.

In the first picture you are seeing my climbing line going down through the picture and the other thing that might look like a rope is actually an extension chord not my lanyard. They had a tree house in that tree and had an extension chord up there.

southsoundtree · Sep 13, 2018

Talking about your saw lanyard.https://www.treestuff.com/store/catalog.asp?item=1083#detail

If you can girth-hitch the one sling, you should be able to girth-hitch your saw lanyard.

I have an old echo, I girth-hitch my saw lanyard to the back of the top-handle, as some do with Stihl top-handles, even with a ring for the lanyard.

My echo came used, without the saw-lanyard ring.

Santiago Casanova · Sep 13, 2018

climbingmonkey24 said:
One of my customers is a photographer and took some photos while I was taking out some trees on her property. View attachment 53981 View attachment 53982

Nice saw. That one has served me well.

climbingmonkey24 · Sep 14, 2018

I’ve tried but can’t fit the lanyard through. Maybe I’ll play around with it more.

I love my Echo. I’ve cut big wood wood with that saw as you can see in the pics and it works well if you treat it right. I get the professional chains from TreeStuff with no anti kickback features. Cuts great for a lower cc saw.